January 2011
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
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Are temporal concepts embodied? A challenge for... →
psydoctor8:
Because I am guilty of attaching emotion to psychological constructs like time, “I’ll be glad when I finish my goddamn doctorate”… which is a good way to actually loose awareness of (perceived?) moments, in lieu of keeping track of linear time related goals.
Is time an embodied concept? People often talk and think about temporal concepts in terms of space. This observation, along...
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Book Review: The Pen & the Stethoscope
Edited by Leah Kaminsky, Scribe Publications 2010.
I recently received this book as a graduation present from some old friends, and just on reading the cover jacket I was pleasantly surprised to see such an exciting collection of authors, ranging from the multi-award winning Atul Gawande (surgeon and writer for the New Yorker), through household name neurologist Oliver Sacks (author of...
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“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise...”
– Luis Buñel
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the app store
so, i dutifully upgraded my OS so I could have a look at the new Apple App Store.
and restarted.
and was a little underwhelmed.
I can see the sense in having the same model for iOS and desktop OS devices - it’s been so successful for the iOS why wouldn’t they do it? and the centralisation of purchases and updates is a good feature too. i guess the real benefit will be in seeing...
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“Another [contact improvisation partner] told me that often I wasn’t giving my...”
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- Jonathan Sinatra «pouring : a contact skill to explore»
i don’t always give my weight fully, but thats a choice i make whilst dancing CI. usually the early part of a duet with someone new involves me revealing this choice (or option), to my partner. i don’t want to come across as...
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into the body
i’ve just been playing with google’s new body browser.
head over to http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/ to have a play yourself. you need a recent browser that supports WebGL and the first page will let you know of some options. i downloaded the Chrome beta as i figured it’d be optimised to work with another google product.
after a relatively short loading time you’re...
